Project Partners Updates

Mukesh Ray, a researcher specializing in indigenous land rights is publishing a newspaper to provide a non corporate-controlled news source. It can be found here though it is published in Hindi, to provide the paper in the language spoken by most people in North India (as opposed to many papers which are published in English and less accessible to the population at large).

Bhakti Nefertiti is currently undergoing the second year of fall planting for reforestation in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is working with government to obtain lands and the community to plant trees at a cost of 600Rs or ~$6 each and is currently soliciting tree parents. More about her work can be found here.

Ram Singh at Shikshanter in Udaipur, Rajasthan has been communicating his methods in dietary sustainability by eliminating tea, sugar, and rice because of their negative humanitarian and ecological impacts. As three staples found on most tables in India, this is a radically different relationship with food. Find out more in our newsletter (contact us to receive it).